| Tango at La Viruta Buenos Aires from Jet Set Life on | | | | take a lesson you get there at around 11 p.m. You |
| Vimeo. Filling the void (when work is removed) brings | | | | purchase a ticket at the door for a beginner, |
| us to some interesting places around the world. The | | | | intermediate or an advanced class. Have a drink at the |
| most recent of which is taking a Tango lesson at La | | | | bar and wait for them to call your class. Oh yeah, it's all |
| Viruta Armenian Cultural Center in Buenos Aires. The | | | | in Spanish. I mean entirely. Not a word of English to be |
| idea for this came straight from the Oracle himself-Tim | | | | heard anywhere. |
| Ferriss. If you prefer watching video over reading text, | | | | Our group (maybe about 20 people) was called to the |
| then watch the video above and for a good laugh go | | | | dance floor and our lesson began. We had two |
| to minute X and watch Kim's head tilting to show me | | | | instructors, a male (I think it was Lorenzo Llamas) and |
| where to move next. It's hysterical. I don't expect | | | | a female (I'm pretty certain she was Penelope Cruz- |
| Dancing with The Stars to be calling anytime soon. I'm | | | | and BTW very pregnant). Our instructors give us very |
| getting ahead of myself here. | | | | detailed and very fast instructions in perfect Argentine |
| In reading Tim's fantastic book the Four Hour Work | | | | Spanish. Of which I understood - Zippo. The good |
| Week he talks about becoming a champion Tango | | | | news is that they demonstrate a set of Tango steps |
| dancer (on a mini-retirement to Buenos Aires) and how | | | | for us to mimic. The bad news is I couldn't mimic squat. |
| he trained at a Milonga called La Viruta. What's a | | | | After an hour of a hysterically funny and embarrassing |
| Milonga you ask? I asked the same question. By | | | | Tango lesson it was time for the Milonga to begin. |
| definition a Milonga is-a term for a place where Tango | | | | Imagine people ranging from 20 to 90 years old |
| is danced. I thought, well, O.K. that seems clear enough. | | | | showing up at around midnight and dancing Tango until |
| Kim and I sat down at the beginning of the year and | | | | the sun rises the next morning. It's really quite an |
| created our 2008 dreamline. In the 'do' category we | | | | experience. Everyone Tangos in a counter clockwise |
| decided to list 'take a tango lesson at La Viruta | | | | direction in amazingly beautiful synchronicity. |
| Armenian Cultural Center in Buenos Aires'. We really | | | | It got me thinking about life. It cost us five bucks to get |
| had no idea what to expect and wanted to be | | | | in and 2 cocktails at the bar. That's it. I say, don't wait |
| surprised. | | | | until retirement to experience all there is in the world. |
| So, here's how it goes down. The Milonga itself doesn't | | | | Use a mini-retirement to sample your deferred life plan |
| really get started until around midnight. If you want to | | | | NOW! It's worth it. I promise. |
